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Sorry, I don't quite follow, is your point that CL has two complicated macros and is therefore a "too big" language?

Yes, LOOP has a lot of syntax to make it look somewhat like "hey, you can code this in English" and FORMAT is discount Turing complete, but there are a lot of language features out there with complicated syntax (regular expression, for example) and X86 Assembly's MOV is also discount Turing complete.



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